Table of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1964 in the Context of the History of "The Land of the Free" 1
Chapter 1 "A Change Is Gonna Come": 1964 and the Battle Lines of Today 11
Chapter 2 Death and Rebirth: An Early Start to a Long Year: JFK Departs; the Beatles Arrive 29
Chapter 3 The Colossus of the Long 1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson 39
Chapter 4 Declaring War on Racism and Poverty: Lyndon Johnson Moves to Spread "White Freedom" 55
Chapter 5 The End of the Old Frontier: Dr. Strangelove, or: How We Learned to Start Laughing and Hate the Bomb 67
Chapter 6 A Whiter Shade of Pink: The British Invasion, First Wave 79
Chapter 7 "You Don't Own Me": Asserting Women's Freedom through Song and Other Means 93
Chapter 8 Emancipation Proclamations: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X 107
Chapter 9 "This Damned Vietnam Thing" "We've Got to Conduct Ourselves Like Men" 131
Chapter 10 Paint It Black with a Union Jack: "Black Freedom" Returns to America: The British Invasion, Second Wave 143
Chapter 11 A Midsummer Night's Nightmare: Three Dead in Mississippi 163
Chapter 12 Reenacting Reconstruction(s): The Civil Rights Act and the Great Society 177
Chapter 13 The Crossroads of Freedom: The Mississippi Freedom Summer 197
Chapter 14 "Extremism in Defense of Liberty": Goldwater and the Republicans 209
Chapter 15 LBJ Proposes to "That Bitch of a War": The Tonkin Gulf 231
Chapter 16 Mrs. Hamer Goes to Atlantic City: The Freedom Party vs. the Anti-Freedom Party 247
Chapter 17 Speaking Freely: Berkeley 265
Chapter 18 "To Be President of ALL the People": The 1964 Election 285
Chapter 19 "No More a Man's World Than It Is a White World": Women and Their Positions 303
Chapter 20 Nonviolence and Violence: Year-end in Oslo and Saigon 319
Chapter 21 "Unmatched in the History of Freedom": The Rest of the Long 1964 and the Lasting Impact of the Year 329
Acknowledgments 359
Permissions Acknowledgments 365
Notes 367
Bibliography 419
Illustration Credits 433
Index 439